WARNING: Most People Stay Poor Because They Ignore This ONE Law...

0:00If you're struggling financially right now, it's probably not because you're lazy, unmotivated, or unlucky. The truth is most people stay broke for life because they ignore one simple law. This first law is something that really helped me unlock everything financially. And for many years, I was struggling. I was working multiple different jobs. I was a bouncer. I was a truck driver. I was doing odd jobs here and there wherever I could. And I wasn't feeling like no matter how hard I worked, I wasn't creating financial abundance. And there was one main law that I needed to shift that started to unlock everything for me.

0:46And this is the law of mindset. Because your internal world shapes your external world. Now, there's a quote I want to share with you from Lisa Nichols that says, your life is a physical manifestation of the conversation going on in your head. For many years, I lived with a conversation of I'm not good enough. I'm stupid. I'm never going to figure this out. Everyone else around me is smarter than me. Why are they getting these results? And I'm struggling when I'm working so hard. It was just a constant movie playing in my mind that was telling me I'm not good enough. and it was manifesting physically in my life the results of I'm not good enough.

1:34And it was exhausting. And I don't know if you're feeling this right now or if you can ever relate to this in your life where you've had this script, this conversation, this critic in your mind telling you how hard things are, how unfortunate things are, why it's not fair, why other people are getting results and you're not getting it, how you're never gonna be able to create financial freedom for your life. I don't know if you've ever had that script. If you have, leave a comment below or like this to confirm that you have so I can see that because this is one of the things that holds you back is your mindset is shaping you.

2:08It's shaping your external world because it's manifesting within your internal world. And I want to share this clip from Lisa Nichols where she really shares this in a powerful way. So watch this. Your life is a physical manifestation of the conversation going on in your head. So if you said nothing but thought everything, your life is going to show up to make your thoughts true. So you have one job. You have one job in your life for you to make what you think about life true so that you're not wrong. You don't want to walk around wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. You want to be right about the life you see.

2:39So you're going to work hard, work hard to produce the life that you talk about in your mind. You've got to see yourself there in your mind. And if you're seeing yourself in struggle in your mind, you're going to manifest it externally in your life. It's not just going to be all of a sudden, easy times, you know, money's not going to fly from the sky and just fall in your lap. If you're in struggle in your mind, you're going to create struggle in your physical manifestations as well. Maybe you're creating some results, but it's just harder. Maybe some opportunities come to you, but it feels like you had to work so hard to make it happen.

3:17As opposed to shifting the mindset and the narrative in your mind first, saying something like opportunities flow to me effortlessly and abundantly. People want to be around me who have opportunities and they want to see me succeed. If you start shifting your self-talk into more empowering messages, more empowering beliefs, even if you don't fully believe it right now, it's okay. But when you start to speak negatively about yourself constantly, why it's so hard, you're going to confirm that because your life doesn't want to be wrong about what you're saying. So you don't want to be wrong about what you're saying.

3:58You're going to manifest that like Lisa just said. So you need to figure out ways to start shifting it with the positive self-talk. You need to be thinking about ways that you can create empowering validation from what you're speaking. And there's a great story that I've talked about before, which is how I found a penny that ended up being worth$4 ,000. And I just wanted to do an experiment for myself when I was on my book tour, Make Money Easy. I was traveling around the country and I was in New York. And I have a video about this that I want to share with you in a moment that showcases what happened.

4:34But just by saying something over and over again, thinking of it, setting an intention, You're creating the space for physical manifestation to occur. It doesn't guarantee that you're going to create these results in a moment or in a day or in a week or month. It doesn't guarantee anything. But by putting yourself in a negative mindset constantly, this law is going to guarantee negative and stress and anxiety. You're going to validate what you're thinking constantly. So we need to be shifting our thinking so that we can validate with a more empowering experience in life. And I'm going to share this penny story video clip right now.

5:15Can you manifest millions? Yes. I was in New York last week. Every morning when I woke up, I just said this to myself, money comes to me abundantly and freely. I see it everywhere. Someone was carrying a box and a penny fell and I was like, all right, it came to me. Let me do this again. The next day I'm in the subway and I see a penny heads up. And I thought to myself, this is filthy. It's not valuable. It's not enough money. I don't need to pick this up. But I was like, no, I'm doing this experiment. Money comes to me abundantly and freely, and I'm going to manifest money. And so I pick it up, put it in my pocket, and I just say, thank you money for coming to me.

5:44I put it on my bedside table. I don't think anything of it. The next day, I look at this penny, and I notice something. It said$19.45 on this penny. That's an 80-year-old penny. And I go, huh, that's unique. I haven't seen a penny that old in a long time. And I flip it over, and I get chills thinking about it. I notice it's a wheat penny. And so I Google$19.45 wheat penny value. And one just sold, guess for how much? I have no idea. $4 ,000. No way. Online. There was more value inside of that penny than what met the eye originally. And all I had to do was be willing to look for it, be willing to pick it up and say, I receive, thank you.

6:20Again, I love this example because I didn't know that this was going to add value to my life. It just looked like a penny. But later I found out that it was actually much more valuable than what met the I originally. So again, you have to be open to possibilities. You have to be open to magic, but you have to shift your mindset with this law first. And the second law is just as important. And it's the law of generosity. You need to be thinking, how can I give first and then multiply later? Because gratitude and generosity is the gateway to abundance. And if you can think this, I don't care if you print that out and you put it on your wall, you put it on your phone screen, you say this to yourself a hundred times throughout the day, and you just say, gratitude and generosity is the gateway to abundance.

7:13Gratitude and generosity is the gateway to abundance. That needs to be your mantra. You need to be thinking, how can I give, not how can I gain? And when I was broke, living on my sister's couch, I felt over and over again, man, I could really use some help from someone right now. I wish someone would come and help me right now. And I would reach out to people on LinkedIn one by one asking for advice. Hey, can you give me a job? Hey, can you teach me something? Hey, can you show me how to do this? I was reaching out and asking constantly for people to give to me. And it was hard. I got a lot of rejection.

7:51People don't want to give me the time. And I realized after many months of failing at this, that I was just being a taker. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't reach out for help. You should. But we need to be thinking, how can I live in gratitude and generosity while I'm reaching out for help as well? And there are so many different things you can do with that, but I'm just always thinking about how to give. Now, it doesn't mean also you need to be a doormat and you have to give all your money away and you have to give all your time away for free constantly. That's not what I'm saying. Life is about balance and boundaries.

8:24But the more generous you can be with your energy, the more generous you can be with your time, the more generous you can be with your knowledge, your wisdom, your experience, the more results will come to you in unexpected ways. And I've been doing this podcast, School of Greatness, for over 12 years. Every single week for 12 years, three times a week for the last 10 years, we have put out a free episode for you. and for millions of people around the world. Now, this costs me money. It costs my team money. It costs us time, energy. It costs resources. It costs building relationships to ask people to come on the show, to spread their message and get wisdom from them as well.

9:11And that is 12 years of weekly consistent effort, energy, time, money, resources, resourcefulness to create something for free and share it with you in the world. And because of that, so much good has come back to myself, to my team, to the business, because we're thinking, how can we add value? How can we serve? How can we give? What is it that people need right now? What is their biggest pain? What is their biggest challenge? Their biggest struggle? We read the comments. So if you're leaving a comment below right now about what you're experiencing and what your challenge is, we're reading these comments and saying, how can we help you with your specific problem and your specific pain?

9:55How can we find the top expert and add value? How can I ask the right questions so you get exactly what you need in this season of your life? And that level of how can I be generous? How can I be a giver? And how can I be grateful for the experience and the opportunity to sit across some of the most inspiring people in the world. Like I'm so grateful and blessed for that opportunity as well. It's like this circle of abundance that comes and goes and comes and goes. And the more I give, the more I receive. And I could block the flow of abundance. And we can talk later about how not to block the flow of abundance.

10:35but by giving constantly and also receiving, I'm allowing for more abundance to flow to me and to others. And again, so many people have said also, Lewis, thank you so much for having me on the show. It helped me sell thousands of copies of my book. I made an extra million dollars in my business from all the leads that came in, whatever it might be. And so many people, I'm just like, take it. I want you to make money. I want you to be happy. I want you to see your business grow. I want you to get opportunities, speaking gigs, whatever it might be. The goal is to be of service and also to be open to receiving abundance to yourself as well.

11:14So the more you can think about being grateful for your life every single day, even when there's a challenge, even when there's stress, thinking about the perspective of life, man, I'm so blessed right now because I'm not living in a war zone. Man, I'm so blessed right now because one of my parents is still alive. Man, I'm so blessed because I have a beautiful wife. Man, I'm so blessed because I have an amazing team. Man, I'm so blessed because I'm healthy right now. I'm so blessed. Even if there's overwhelm and stress and struggle in your life, I'm not saying you have to discount those things.

11:44But what I am saying is you can look at the things to be grateful for. You can wake up in the morning and say, thank you. Thank you for another day to open my eyes and to take another breath. And so many people live in this state of frustration and stress because the mindset, The first law is blocking your abundance to generate more internal freedom, internal peace, internal worthiness to then create external worthiness, external financial results, opportunities, resources, all these different things. So we've got to start shifting the mindset and also the gratitude and the generosity. And that's the law number two.

12:29Law number three is the law of sequencing because you need to map your life. If you never map out your future, you'll tend to retrace your past. Because poor people try to jump steps. They try to invest before they save or they scale without a foundation. But wealth is built through layers, through seasons. first earning, then managing, then multiplying. Like nature, money has a rhythm. There's seasons to the rhythm. And if you ignore it, you'll stay broke or you'll constantly be going up and down, up and down in the financial system. And in order to figure out the law of sequencing and how to map your life, I wanna give you this application for yourself.

13:21And I want you to take notes and write these questions down. I'm gonna give you nine different questions that you can ask to figure out where you are in your life, what sequence you need to take, and the map for yourself to guide you moving forward. Because I can already hear you saying, well, I'm not sure what I want. I'm not sure how much I wanna make, or I wanna make tons of money, but you're not clear enough. And in order to really create more financial freedom and abundance, we've got to have a map. So here are nine questions for you. I want you to write these down. And if you want extra credit, you can even write these down, these questions in the comments below so other people can see it, copy and paste and use this.

14:02The first question is, how much do I want to make? How much do I really want to make? What's your number? And why do I want to make that? So how much do I want to make is number one. Why do I want to make that? Why do I want to make that much? There's got to be something underneath that's deeper than just, I want to make a million dollars because I want to be rich. Okay, well, there's not going to be fulfillment at the end of the day if you're not clear with why. The third question you want to ask yourself is what will I do with the money when I make it? Because when we are clear on how much we want to make and we know what we're going to do with it, like I know how much money I'm going to be giving to charity this year.

14:43So I'm clear. That empowers me to get up and do things that I don't normally want to do, that I'm struggling to do. It gets me more motivation to say, okay, I'm going to go the extra mile in this one place. Or I'm going to go fly here and take this extra speaking gig because I want to use this money to serve more people. Because I know in the previous law, the law of gratitude and generosity, that when I am given so much, it's also an opportunity to give back so much. It's also an opportunity to pay it forward. because when I was broke on my sister's couch, not making a lot of money for a couple of years, there were people that showed up for me.

15:25There were people that paid it forward to me. And it's my responsibility and it's your responsibility to keep paying it forward to others as well. This doesn't mean if you're broke, you need to give all your money away to people. That's not what I'm saying. But are there people in your life that are maybe a few years younger than you, whether it's a younger brother or sister that you can pull up with you and inspire and speak confidence into and empower from time to time and show up for and show them you care, show up to their events, to their graduations, to their first day of whatever they're doing.

16:00Can you show up for people in your life and show them and speak confidence into them and remind them how much they are loved and how much they are worthy and how much they matter? That's really what we're all looking for. So the third question is, what will I do with my money when I make it? The fourth one is, when do I want to make it? So what date? Could you give yourself a timeline, a deadline, a date of when you want to make it? If you want to make$100 ,000, by when? By when do you want to earn that$100 ,000? And you have to see where you're at currently. And okay, how much time do I really think it's going to take to get there?

16:41And I remember I was broke on my sister's couch, not making anything for a while. And I just gave myself a crazy goal for me, which was I want to make$5 ,000. And I gave myself a deadline. It was nine months. Now, again, I was broke. I was broke. I was making 250 bucks a week as a truck driver. But I was like, I want to make$5 ,000 in one month. And I want to do it in nine months. I didn't know how I was going to do it. I didn't know who was going to help me do it. I didn't know what I needed to do to do it. But I gave myself a deadline and a date and I literally signed the date with the number$5 ,000 and I hung it on my wall.

17:19And this was a reminder every single day. That's where I'm heading. This is the law of sequencing. It's where I'm heading. It's my map. It's my vision. It's my mission. It's the guide. I don't know how to do it, but I know I need to get clear of what I want to make, when I want to make it by and what I'm going to do with the money. It's going to give me more empowering energy to go make it happen. The fifth question that you want to ask yourself is what fears do I need to overcome? Oh man, when I was broke on my sister's couch, I had every fear you could imagine. A hundred more fears than you have right now.

17:55I had them all because I went from being a cocky 23, 24 year old who was playing arena football and in best shape of my life and thought I had it figured out to breaking my wrist, to having to retire from playing football, from ending my dream, from the crash of 2008 in the USA, to not having an opportunity to get a job, to living on my sister's couch for a year and a half, broke as a joke and really unsure of myself, unsure of what's the future. How do I make money? I have no clue. What am I supposed to do? And I made a list of all my fears. A mentor said, you need to make a list of all your fears.

18:43And he said, you need to go all in on your fears until the fears disappear. And I want that to be your mantra as well. I want you to write a list of your biggest fears right now. For me, it was public speaking. That was a big one. And I needed to write a list of these fears. It was the fear of looking bad, the fear of criticism, the fear of judgment. It was like writing all these things down, all the flaws that were inside of me. I was good at hiding it and acting confident, but deep down, I was a scared little boy. And in order to overcome the fear, you must go all in on your fear until the fear disappears.

19:17And it might take years of practice. It may never go away. But if you can constantly act in the fear and feel more comfortable with the fear, you're eventually going to feel like, oh, I'm okay. I can do this. Maybe you're never going to be the best in the world of that thing. I'm never going to be the best public speaker in the world, but I can go on stage in front of 10, 20, 50 ,000 people and I can deliver my message with poise and confidence. before when i was 24 25 on my sister's couch i couldn't get up in front of five people without stuttering stumbling and trembling like it was i was just sweating profusely anytime i'd get in front of a small group of people to just say something for a minute it's like uh i was so worried about what people thought of me what people were going to say about me behind my back And I don't know if you have that fear right now.

20:15If you have the fear of what are people going to say about me if I post something online or if I try to go all in on this dream that I have, leave a comment below if you're worried about what people think about you, you're concerned about people judging you or criticizing you by putting yourself out there. And I get it. It's a real fear. It's not enjoyable to have people say nasty things about you. But for me, it was much more important to go all in on the fear, be judged, be laughed at, be criticized. You know, it was much more valuable doing that than waiting a year, five years, 20 years, my life, never going all in on that fear and looking back and saying, gosh, I was crippled because I just lacked the courage.

21:05I lacked courage to go try something. So what fears do I need to overcome? I want you to think about that. Create a list of your fears and start going all in on them one by one. The sixth question is, what do I need to learn? So again, we're sequencing. You're figuring out what you want to make, by when, the fears that are holding you back, and what you need to learn. So at that point, I needed to learn public speaking. So I found a mentor who is a professional speaker. And I said, what do I need to do? And he said, you need to go to Toastmasters and you need to go every single week for a year.

21:42They're going to give you a workbook. It's a curriculum on how to be a better public speaker. You need to show up every single week and you need to speak every single week. And I want you to film yourself and watch back and get a coach who can critique you in a positive way to see what you're doing well and what to improve on. And that's what I did for a year. I was horrible. I was terrified. I was like, so it was so stressful to go to a meeting with 20 people and speak for two minutes. It was the heart. It felt like I was going to die, but that's exactly why I needed to go. And that's why you need to go and do whatever it is fear you're stressed out about right now.

22:24So what do I need to learn to help me overcome this fear, to help me accomplish this goal in this law of sequencing? The seventh question is, with whom do I need to connect? So who do you need to meet? What mentor? What coach? What guide? And maybe it's not a person you're going to connect with. Maybe it's a book you're going to learn from. Maybe it's a podcast like the School of Greatness, where you're going to learn from some top expert to teach you the thing. You know, you may not get access to the top person in the world to be your coach or mentor, nor do you may not have the money or the resources to be able to invest in a coach or mentor.

23:01But there's so much value online right now. There's so many books that you can buy for 20 bucks that can give you a lot of the expertise from that person. So think about who do I need to connect with? And it might be multiple people. Number eight, what skills do I need to master? Again, this is kind of goes into number six. What do I need to learn? There are multiple skills that I needed to master in order to overcome these fears that were blocking me, but also in order to create more financial freedom. And I didn't understand money. I didn't know about money. I was afraid of money. So I also started reading money books.

23:39I started asking questions just to people who had more money than me. You know, it didn't have to be like some billionaire, but just, I lived in Columbus, Ohio, and I just found people who are a little bit older than me, who had made a little bit more than me. And I just said, hey, what did you do here? How did you learn this? And I just kept learning new skills to master. And I'm still needing to learn and master new skills because as we reach new levels, there's new things to learn and break through to. And the ninth question to ask yourself, hopefully you're writing this down, is what actions do I need to take?

24:14So all these questions are just guiding to support you within the law of sequencing, to set you up, to map your life and create a game plan. because without a game plan in life, we're really just gonna be wandering around asking yourselves, what do I do next? And with a game plan, at least you have a clear direction. It doesn't mean it's gonna be a smooth direction. There might be a lot of bumps along the road, but at least you're going in one direction and you can see improvement from where you've gone week after week, month after month. That's the third law. And if you're really looking to create more financial peace and external abundance in your life, you also gotta make sure to check out the book that a lot of this stems from.

25:00It's called Make Money Easy. It's all about creating financial freedom and living a richer life. Because we dive deeper in the subconscious stories that you've been telling yourself that have been blocking your abundance financially. Talked about your money story and the things that are hurting you every single day. So if you wanna unlock the freedom in your life financially to a whole new level, Make sure to grab a copy of this book as well. The fourth law. This is an interesting one. And I'm curious where you stand on this law. This fourth law is called the law of abundance. One income is a trap.

25:40Now, here's a quote from my friend, Rory Vaden, who says, diluted focus gets diluted results. Now, everyone's money journey is different. And some of the richest people have only one stream of income. They go all in, they focus all their energy and, and they put all their time and all their resources into one business with one main product. And it blows up into this massive financial success because they went all in on their focus and their energy. One income or multiple incomes streams. There's no right or wrong on how you can create abundance in whichever one you choose. Because so many people will say, well, you need multiple streams of income in order to create financial freedom.

26:27And other people go all in on one and they crush it. So you have to be thinking about where are you at in your life? What season of life are you in? And what feels right for you? Now, give an example. In my business, when I started out, I was broke. my sister's couch. And I was like, I just need to make money wherever the opportunity comes. And let me know if this speaks to you, if you feel like you might be in this place right now. I just want to make money anywhere I can make it. And originally I was doing one-on-one coaching, teaching people about LinkedIn. Then I wrote a book. Then I was doing workshops.